Science and the media: When opinions collide

My last month was spent revising for the exams I had last week. I tried to remember the last time I had an essay based exam. It was seven years ago when I did my GCSEs. I was dreading hand cramp from too much writing. I also forgot how great the relief is when you finish. It's all worth it in the end.

I've also been excited to see the next issue of I,Science come out. It's fulfilling to see students walking around with the magazine on campus. And thanks to some tweeting by one of my lecturers, our interview with Ben Goldacre got some attention in the twittersphere, with some of the things he said causing a bit of a stir.

I was really scared when this first came out. I was thinking that we've got to have annoyed someone. Are we going to get in trouble for printing this? Would we have to do some damage limitation-tweeting to get everything back on track? Luckily, everything settled down and I breathed a sigh of relief as I watched our hits take off, bringing us lots of traffic to the website.